MySpace and HP have hatched a cunning plan to get punters at the social notworking site to print out more of the billions of pictures digitally stored there.

Basically, the pair will integrate HP software into MySpace, particularly in photo sections, to make it easier to print comments, messages, blogs, pictures and other content.

News Corp-owned firm's chief executive, Chris DeWolfe, said that sharing and storing photos online was a big bit of social networking.
,there are four billion images stored on the site and  the hope is that the alliance will eventually allow people to emblazon images from MySpace on coffee mugs, T-shirts and other items.

HP Imaging and Printing Group vice president Vyomesh Joshi said that by unlocking content from user profiles, friend's comments, and photos that were previously only viewable online, HP was enabling MySpace users to experience their content and to tell their story in a whole new way.

Although quite how new having a hard copy photograph was in the 21st century he did not say.